Attire for heels

ABSTRACT

A practical, useful and low cost attire for heels or a footwear is provided for those who have health problems or suffer ailments such as epinkalkanei (heel spur) and plantar fasciits on heels and have to stand for significant amounts of time. The attire for heels or footwear can be used both at home or outside with shoes. The attire for heels has a supporting surface which is located at the heel part of the foot and can be worn on foot like socks without any connecting means.

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

1. Field of the Invention

The present invention is about footwear (attire for heel) which isproduced for people who have problems on heels or stand long time in aday.

The invention is especially related to a footwear which is a practical,useful and an economic heel attire, to be used by people who haveailments such as planar fasciit (vicious) and heel spur and where it canbe used at home or at the outside with shoes, which has a supportsection at the heel part of the foot and can be wear such as sockswithout need any binding element.

2. Description of Related Art Including Information Disclosed Under 37CFR 1.97 and 37 CFR 1.98.

In the prior art technique, when we consider our living standards, anincrease in participation in working business life leads to varioushealth problems. These problems are especially in the heel spurs andplantar vicious complaints due to stay standing up.

Heel Spurs (EpinKalkenei):

EpinKalkanei is a widespread and very common health problem. A spineoccurs under the heel bone namely under the soles of feet. Thisextension or spine is a result of running or walking on hard surfaceswith shoes having hard bases or is seen frequently on elderly people whohave arthritis. In addition it is frequently seen or detected in thosewho have excessive weight problems or stands while working for a longtime and is seen in some rheumatic diseases. There is pain when pressedon the heels at the soles of feet.

In its treatment, insoles or insock for heel with orifice on its centeris used, or the bottom of the shoe heel portion is carved and somepainkillers and inflammation mitigation antirheumatic drugs ormedications are used. If pain does not vanish an injection of cortisoneis applied into the heel, the area of heel spine. If the pain stillexist, this spine is taken out with a surgical operation.

Plantar Fasciitis

People having this ailment, after a long period of rest, for example,when they get up in the morning, they feel a pain which is more, whiletheir first steps are paced and lesser as they walk but it starts againincreasingly during the day while standing and which propagates from theheel to the inside of the foot.

There is a thick fiber layer, at the soles of the feed and under theskin, which is starting from the heel and stretching through the toes.This layer is called plantar fascia. Apart from protection the musclesand bones, main function of the fascia is to give a slope which is seenfrom perspective.

It can be seen at any age and a repetitive frequent trauma can be causedas a result of sports activities, works that need person who has to walkand stand too much and may be occurred to overweight and elderlyindividuals. Usually it be encountered with heel spurs and plantarfasciitis.

At the treatment, an insoles with an orifice at the center of heel soleand if there is a flat surface on the feet, a special tools to reducetension on the plantar fascia are given and some stretching exercisesfor the plantar fascia are recommended. In case of persistent heel pain,a cortisone injection can be shot to the plantar fascia and the heel.

According to known technique some orthopaedical shoes have beendeveloped for these problems. One of them is a shoe or slipper havingorifice at the heel part of it, which is developed for patients havingheel spur. But this solution has high costs and cannot be afforded andused everyone. Even if it is bought, it will not be possible to use thatsingle shoe everywhere.

One of the improvement in prior technique about the subject matter is autility model of TR 2003 01626 which is about socks having sole. Thesocks, which are the subject of the invention, consist of soles underits base. There is a material, which provides mounting the rubbermaterial around the lower section of the socks. A rubber made materialis mounted over said material.

The socks having sole of the invention mentioned above are productsfacilitating to walk for babies about to begin walking without gettingcold by wearing only these socks. Thanks to rubber underneath, it issufficient to wear only that socks. However this product has not anyfeature to protect the health of the heel and relieving pain.

Another utility model, TR 2003 00071, discloses footwear with a solesupport. The invention of the utility model is related to pillowslocated at the sole of the footwear in order to lessen the pressure ofload over the heel bone and articulation of leg and foot during walking.The footwear includes a sole and an upper part mounted on that sole.Upper part includes a hole allowing a foot to enter and a lace or anykind of connecting means which prevents the footwear not to take offfrom the foot.

The aforementioned invention lose its property of usefulness and easilywearable because of including a lace or any kind of connecting meanswhich prevents the footwear not to take off from the foot.

In a patent application, having the number of U.S. Pat. No. 4,560,462, afoam material which is in different positions of the sole and havingdifferent densities, is used.

Said material has no effect to protect heel health and to kill the pain.In addition there is some problems to wash because it is not waterresistant.

In order to eliminate the disadvantages described above, a multi purposefootwear for heel, having advantages compared to its counterparts, canmeet the technical needs which is possibility to use both at home and atthe outside with shoes.

BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The object of the invention is to prevent disadvantages of the priortechniques while putting forward an attire for heel (footwear) which iscost effective and useful for everyone who has problems on heels or hasto stay stand for a long time and which can be used every type of shoes.

In this context, an objective of the present invention is to make astructure while designing a novel heel attire which can be used both athome and at the outside and provides a good health quality and feelingof comfort on the feet.

Another objective of the present invention is to provide a time gainingand easy to use product because it does not include any kind ofconnecting means (Velcro strips, zippers, buttons, etc.). Therefore theskin irritation problem of these connection means is prevented from thebeginning.

In the present invention of the heel attire, thanks to its porousstructure, prevents sweating, various skin diseases and bad smell offeet. Besides it is suitable for people of any age and health condition.

Another object of the invention is to provide a constant position as aresult of putting en foot and tightness around the foot and therefore tobe used by those who have to stand for a long time.

Additionally, intended with the footwear (heel attire) is to provide awater resistant structure so as to be used by patients even in bathroom

Therefore, to achieve aforementioned objectives, footwear (heel attire)is developed to be used by patients who have heel spurs and plantar footailments such as vicious, both at home and at the outside with shoes andit includes a main body to cover the heel tightly and a supportingsurface having a connection with the main body.

In a preferred embodiment, the present invention comprises many pores onthe main body to prevent sweating.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a side view of a preferred embodiment of the invention of heelattire.

REFERENCES

-   1. Attire for heel (footwear)-   2. Main body-   3. Supporting surface-   4. Pores-   5. Toe opening-   6. Wrist opening

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

In this detailed description, the present invention of the footwear orheel attire is explained in order to understand better and not toconstitute any restrictive effect.

A preferred embodiment of the present invention of the footwear (1) isgiven in FIG. 1 as a side view. Accordingly, said footwear or heelattire (1) comprises a main body (2) wrapping around the heel only, asupporting surface (3) connected underneath to said main body (2), anumber of pores (4) configured on said main body (2) to preventsweating.

Said supporting surface (3) is a silicon based material which bringsessential features of the present invention.

To use the present invention, the footwear (heel attire) (1) is worn sothat the foot enters from the wrist opening (6) and the toes exitthrough the toe opening (5) until the main body (2) wraps the heeltightly.

1. An attire for heel (footwear) for the heel of the foot, for those whosuffer from epinkalkanei (heel spur) or plantar fasciitis to be usedboth at home or at the outside with shoes, characterizing in that, itcomprises a main body wrapping tightly around the heel of foot and asupporting surface connected underneath to said main body.
 2. An attirefor heel according to claim 1, characterized in that it comprises anumber of pores or holes on said main body in order to prevent sweating.3. An attire for heel according to claim 1, said main body being asilicon based material to provide tightness after it is worn.